This month’s Top 20 things is a festival of old and new, scary and nice, handy and, erm, useless. And with millions more consoles out there, 2008 will be even more packed with the kind of random nonsense that makes the world of Nintendo such a fun place to be. Enjoy! ...
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14 Feb 2008

New Xbox, Nintendo consoles by 2010?

GC News | Gamecube

Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson believes Microsoft and Nintendo will release new home consoles by 2010, the year he says will likely mark the end of the PSP and DS cycles.In an investor note issued to GameSpot, Wilson said it is unlikely that Microsoft or Nintendo will attempt to extend the traditional five year console cycle in this generation."We believe that peak industry sales will occur in 2010, given that Microsoft will ...
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14 Feb 2008

Wii sales surpass GameCube's lifetime sales?

GC News | Gamecube

It's (almost) official. The Wii has overtaken the worldwide lifetime sales of the GameCube in the thirteen months since its release.On February 9, the Wii had sold 21.490 million consoles, while its predecessor had sold a mere 21.515 million units.Based on the amount of Wiis sold last week, the console is currently selling 64,000 units per day.Pop all that information in a mathematics machine and you get a figure of 21.554 million Wiis sold by ...
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7 Feb 2008

Mature-rated games declining rapidly

GC News | Gamecube

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) says that the percentage of Mature-rated games released halved from 2005 to 2007.In a winter newsletter, Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB, said that the amount of Mature-rated titles is declining each year despite the fact that more and more games are being released."The ESRB also had the biggest year ever in 2007, having assigned 1,563 ratings, a 22% increase over the prior year. And, as ...
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6 Feb 2008

The new look GamesRadar is HERE!

GC News | Gamecube

Welcome to the new look GamesRadar. Firstly, and most importantly, we hope you like it. The entire GamesRadar team has worked extremely hard to deliver this redesign and we hope you'll agree it's a massive leap forward for the site. ...
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31 Jan 2008

Visit Paris, Hawaii, and the Moon

GC News | Gamecube

Sometimes planning a vacation feels like too much work. Even if you manage to score enough time off, finagle a passport and find affordable deals for your flight and lodgings, theres still a good chance that youll get screwed by delays, lost luggage, overbooked rooms and locals with a powerful disdain for your loud Hawaiian shirts. While nothing can replace the thrill of visiting famous sites and learning about them via overpriced headset tour guides, weve noticed that some games have done an ...
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29 Jan 2008

DVDstruction: 5 horrific monsters in HD

GC News | Gamecube

By now, youve probably seen the motion sickness-meets-whale/parasite monster hype machine, Cloverfield. And like us, youre probably still scouring internet forums feeding off bare morsels of factoids like that radio transmission you have to play backwards. Its probably ‘cause we cant get enough of giant monsters wrecking your shit. We started thinking of more tantrums of gargantuan proportions and came up with five of the most heinous nasties that look the best in 1080p. These arent in ...
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28 Jan 2008

The Top 7... Damsels You DON'T Want to Save

GC News | Gamecube

You know the formula. A pure-hearted beauty falls into the evil grasp of some snarling, spitting, mustache-twirling megalomaniac. A noble hero, driven by honor, courage and - let's face it - hormones, rushes to her aid. A brief kiss ensues and, before you can say sequel, the hapless lady has stumbled into imminent danger all over again. Tale as old as time... classic "damsel in distress." Except sometimes, the damsel isn't worth the damn trouble. ...
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23 Jan 2008

Experimental narrative structures in games

GC News | Gamecube

Note: This article is intentionally magniloquent and bombastic. Read it at the risk of becoming irritated and rebutting it in a forum, blog, or on Digg. What is a first-person game? Third-person? Most can easily identify these terms as referring to a games “camera” and how it relates to the virtual physical space of the game world. Also utilized are omnipresent viewpoints (strategy games), and the somewhat outdated second-person (text adventures). In literary terms, however, the ...
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23 Jan 2008

8 officially licensed WTF?! products

GC News | Gamecube

Its natural for videogame companies to get a little marketing-happy. Hell, if we had a popular franchise, wed whore it out as much as we could too. (By the way, make sure to check out GamesRadar for all your gaming-related needs!) Anyway, weve stumbled upon so much dreadful, officially licensed merchandise over the years, we couldnt help but laugh at how poorly they portrayed the games they were based on. Get ready to bask your eyes in the most confusing products that ever marketed a ...
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